The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 3, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,118 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDA\r\ FEBRUARY 3, 1950 PRICE TEN CENTS Skies Clear as Great Air Search is Renewed 407 BUSINESS TAX ASKED TO OFFSET CUTS WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—(A—The | 5a8id he would postpone the Hydu-{ Truman administration today pm_jb\xr,; election and added that the posed a 10 percent tax on television | Others were “in the same class.” | sets and a rise from 38 to 42 per- | Bartlett told the committee that| cent in the top levy on business in- | he Was elected by the people of come to go with the cuts it has|Alaska and though he opposes| recommended in “sales” taxes. | creation of reservations always got| Secretary of the Treasury Snyder | 8 large share of the Native vote. went before the House Ways and | Warne, in answer to a question Means Committee to outline in de- | bY ,O'Mahoney, said the Natives tail, with specific figures, the initiated the move which brought changes President Truman sketched | about the order for creation ot the only in broad outline in his recent | reservations. | tax message to Congress. Cutting here and raising there, Barrow Eledion Stayed But Shungnak Vofe, Scheduled 3RD DIVISION; Tomorrow, Must Take Place By CHARLES D. WATKINS WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—M—An election on proposed creation of a native i ation at Barrow, Alaska, has been postponed by In- terior Secretary Chapman, Sena- tor O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) day. An election on the proposed Hyda- burg reservation previously had been deferred, to give Chapman an op- portunity to study the needs of the Indians further. O’Mahoney, chairman of the Sen- te Interiors Affairs | | said to-|as somewhat of a surprise in view ot Comumittee, | Owen, | leaders alike called at that time tor| TWO TICKETS, GOPERS FILE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 3—® —Twenty-seven Democrats and 15 Republicans have filed for nommn-} tion to various Third Division posi-| tions at the April 25 primaries. | The number of Republicans comes | a fear last week that none would | file. Republican and Democrat| GOP candidates, citing the need for continuance of the two-party sys- tem. | Democratic candidates are A. A.| Jr., Commissioner of Labor; | the net result of the program would be to give the government about §1,075,000,000 more 'income. As to cuts in the excise, or “sales” told a reporter thet an election on|E. L. Bartlett, incumbent, for Dele- | RESERVATION | a third proposed new Alaska reser- | | vation, at Shungnak, has been set| | for tomorrow and can not be post- ! gate; Henry Roden, Treasurer; Victor C. Rivers, incumoent, and Z. J. Loussac, Senate. ATBARROW taxes, Snyder’s propgsals were‘ closely in line with forecasts and included: ; | 1. Cut from 20 to 10 percent Lhel retail taxes on furs, luggage,| women’s handbags, jewelry and: toilet preparations. | 2. Cut from 25 to 15 percent the! charges on long distance (e!ephoneiBar”e" Says In'erior Man and telegraph charges. Nothmg‘ i | Recommended Against It on local telephone service. | The tax-writing committee had | ruff (R-Mich) declared that 2| WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—(P—In “buyers’ strike” is growing. Hely,. controversy over scheduled na- was said about the 15, percent charge Eskimos Knew Nothing hardly assembled before Rep. Wood- | moved that the committee g0 ahead | (jyes yoting on the issue of creat- with, legislat‘mn eutting e’_(c“e tax- |ion of a reservation at Barrow, Al- | es and consider other parts of the |aqen for Eskimos had been post- | NOT WANTED poned. | The committee said it also wants| to study the rights of the natives| to land or payment for land lhm.l formerly be d to the Tribes. | Former Secretary of the Imerlori his t day in office | reating three Indian | ‘xeservanonh in the Territory, sub | Ject to favorable action at an elec- tion to be held at each place by | the natives. | | The proposed reservations were at | | Barrow, where it was pianned to ! set aside 750 square miles; at | Shungnak, to cover 2300 square ! miles; and at Hydaburg, where 100,000 acres would be set aside. Chapman told the committee | January 16 he would order a post- ponement of the Hydaburg elec- | tion, set for Feb. 6, and later ordered it held April 24. Thought Postponed H At that time some committee members understood Chapman to | testify that he would order all three | | | elections postponed, but the next | day the department ordered those | at Shungnak and Barrow to be held | on Feb. 4 and 8. | A hurried meeting of the commit | tee was called yesterday after Sena- itor Cordon (R-Ore) and other| | members insisted that Chapman be | {called to explain “why he changed | his mind” about Barrow and! | Shungnak. | Governor Gruening of Alaska and | Delegate Bartlett of the Territory | urged the committee to have the| | elections postponed, saying it would | {do much harm to the natives to| | put them on reservation status. “ y were joined by Cordon, | Senator Butler (R-Neb) and Sena- | | tor Cain (R-Wash). Cain is not a ! member of the committee but has 1pcndin’: with Butler a bill to take | away from the Interior Department | | the right to create reservations in! | the Territory. | | There was no indication of what| | time today = Chapman’s decision | | would be given the commi | ttee. | | Awaiting Answer ! | Chairman O'Mahoney (D-Wyo) | | said he would put the matter up to | the Secretary last night and report FuL radi For the seven House seats Demo- | o cratic aspirants are incumbents Stanley McCutcheon, Jack D. Con-| Photo. | Search Planes Awail Takeoff Orders % 4 . via Part of the 50-plane fleet based at the Great Falls, Mont., Air Force Base, await takeoff orders in the | largest acrial search-rescue mission in American Air Force history. ignal was reported heard over Smith River, 132 miles northwest of Fort Nelson, B. C. The signal | revived hope that some of the 44 perons aboard the lost Army C-54 transport may still be alive. (P Wire- A “very weak” and unidentified right, William A. Egan, C. A. Pol-| oo lard and C. Chester Carlson. Demo- |~ crats seeking to unseat them are| Audrey Cutting, E. G. Bailey, Ed Baldwin, Glen H. Irving, Karl Armstrong, Al Lindemuth, Tom | Appleton, James Norene, Wendell | P. Kay, Joe N. Briones, Jack Scavs | enius, Willlam W. Warwick, Leon- | ard Eugene Whittaker, J. A. Mec~ Cracken, Betty Mears, W. A. (Pat) Connon and Jack E. Maze. Republican candidates are: Henry Benson, incumbent, and Raymond | Beach, Commissioner of Labor; Gerrit Heinie Snider and Gunnard M. Engebreth, Senate; Almer J. Peterson, Delegate. Candidates for the House are Anita H. Dougherty, M. D. Snodgrass, John F. Gorsuch, Walter J. Hickel, Victor Gill, Dr. Lee McKinley and Richard Thor- | wald Osho. L TICKETS, 2ND DIVISION NOME, Alaska, Feb, 3—/—Two of the first Alaskans of ESkimo |, s blood to be elected to the Legis- lature are trying to move up to the Senate. They are Rep. Percy Ipalook, full- bhlooded Eskimo missionary from | Wales, and Rep. Bill Beltz of Nome. Both served their first terms in the House in the 1949 session. Ipa- look is a Republican; Beltz Democrat. Para-doctor rescue team studies a to the Air Force 4th rescue squad 2 ke " Parachute Rescue T map of the Yuko wilderness before leaving Great Falls, Mont. (Jan. ron, McChord Field, Wash. #) Wire] The incumbent Second Division Republican Senators also are re- entered in the 1950 race. They are the veteran Charles Jones, who served in the first Alaska Legisla- ture, and bush pilot Bill Munz. Another Senate candidate is| Charles O’Leary, Democrat. | House candidates are: Democrais — Frank Degnan, James Wells, George Madsen, Axel Edman; Re- ‘WITH70RUSS SUBS | “INPACIFIC, . 5.T0 MANEUVER THERE (By Associated Press) The U.S. Navy announced in! ‘:shle :g“f“lflf_n which now exists i |y angwer today. The committee | {idacica et "‘gn“? "‘d‘}":'f titles and | .. ecsed subject to meeting on call | | res policies, thus creating | by O’Mahoney. ptiblicans — Pete Reader, W. W Laws, Mrs. Frank Coplin, Mrs. Les- Tokyo it will conduct “hunter- | killer” anti-submarine exercises this year in the Pacific. It is estimated The decision yesterday to request Chapman to postpone the elections was reached after Assistant Secre- tary Willilam E. Warne told the | committee the Secretary felt he did not have the power to cancel his order for them to be heid. “Then,” said Senator Cordon (R- Ore), “he at least has the authority to postpone them. He already has | done that in the case oi the pro- | posed election for the Hydaburg reservation.” “There seems to be ample author- ity to postpone,” O’Mahoney said, “and in view of that I shall re- commend to Secretary Chapman that the action be taken.” | ter Dronson and Nels Swanberg. | that Russia has one-fourth of its 280 submarines in Pacific waters. Following a meeting of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff in Tokyo, Adm. | Forrest P. Sherman, Chiet of Naval | Operations, said the escort carrier [ y Sicily and six destroyers will move BABY Blo(KADE |into the Pacific soon to augment | the present fleet. “Hunter-killer” taetics against German and Ja (By Associated Press) | nese submarines proved very etfe ‘Washington observers said Britain | tijye in World War IL and France would join the U.S. in| The visiting military chiefs have striking back at Russia’s new “baby | concluded their conferences with blockade” of Berlin. State Depari-| General MacArthur and his com- ment officials consider the current|manders. halting of East-West truck tratlic| in Germany by the Russians is an| ALLIES TO AID IN COUNTERING RUSS President’s * program later. roned by Interior Secretary Chap- That lost, 14 to 10, with the Dem- |, ynti April 24 or 28, Con- ocrats voth_lg solidly »ngamsL it and |y ressional Delegate E. L. Bartlett the Republicans for it. |asserts that the Interior Deparf Then they settled down to hear|p.ni orficial who conducted the Snyder's plan. | Barrow hearing, had recommended Ingamst a reservation: "o SE"lEMml v“ | Bartlett said this official report- |ed that the Eskimes in the region AS (ARPE""'ERS "'RY {had not asked for any reservation and knew nothing about the idea FOR wAGE I"(REASE;un‘u he arrived to conduct the hearing. ien | The Eskimos at Barrow are one Juneau carpenters remained out{oi the fwo groups scheduled to today for the third day as nego-i\'ote within a week on the reser- tiations between their union and vation issue. The other embraces local contractors remained at a the 150 Eskimcs of Shungak and standstill. |Kobuk villages. Carpenters at Juneau contracting | There has been controversy over companies laid off Monday morn- |whether the Interior Departiaent ing until an hourly wage agreement ‘hns reversed itself in setting the for 1950 can be reached. elections instead of postponing them Meetings between representatives |along with a Hydaburg poll in of the contractors and Local 2247, [scutheastern Alaska. International Carpenter and Joiners | In a letter to Interior Secretary of America, AFL, have resulted in Chapman, written Jan. 12, Bart- agreement on all phases of the ictt said: 1950 contract agreement except the | No Proiection hourly wage rate. | “The reservations sought to be Carpenters are asking for a “rea- |created are of highly doubtful val- sonable raise” retroactive to Feb-|idity, afford no protection to the ruary 1. Their present hourly rate inhabitants of the areas proposed is $2.30. Ito be reserved, but on the con- Four Juneau electricians have trary force them to relinquish their been out of work for two weeks ancestral claims; they are discrim- as the result of another contract inatory as to various tribesmen dispute. {who by choice or accident reside ] joutside the reservation. - & : | “They compound many times over The Washingion Merry Ld GO - B_ound ’impassable barriers- to the devel-| By DREW PEARSON | 0P70c 1Y 00 Ot ont. such | (Copyright, 1950, by Bell Syndicate, 1ne.) |y 1 n e e “trere’ con be no Lo ‘ASHINGTON—A friendly Tex- |ciable increase in population.” ! an who speaks in a soft drawl and | Another Point wears neat bow ties is the big sur-| At another point Bartlett wrote: prise of the Supreme Court. “You recall the series of meetings Six months ago when Attorney on Alaska matters held in |hp§ General Tom Clark’s name was sent | Department of the Interior in Dec- to the Senate, his critics looked |ember, 1948. You attended some down their noses and sneered, “a|of those meetings. There was con- politician! A bureaucrat!” in the | siderable discussion as to the ad- gleaming white marble building“\'lsabmty of creating reservations. across the park from the Capitol, | Governor Gruening and I were em- there was apprehension. |phatic in our opposition. The issue But today, fellow justices un-|was squarely presented to then Se- grudgingly describe Clark’ as “con- cretary Krug during the confer- scientious. . a great worker. . a pac- €nces. Once again he ruled against ifying influence.” Chief Justice Fred reservations and on that occ Vinson beams fondly when the freshman is mentioned. Usually a neophyte on the high court is considered a go-getter if he writes two majority opinions his first year. Tom Clark has written five in less than six months —two on taxes, corporate responsi- bility, railway safety, and a cost equation for property requisitioned by the government. Remarked one justice of Clark: “Tom is the easiest man on the bench to get along with. He is a great help to us all. He works hard, does more than his share, and turns out a sound product.” Abe Lincoln—Fair Dealer?” When GOP Leader Joe Martin moved that the House of Represen- (Continued on Page Four) :‘he specifically declared against ;lhose at Hydaburg, along the Ko- | buk River, and at Barrow. | “Notwithstanding, thoke within | the Department who always urged | reservations in Alaska had their ef- | forts crowned with success. A§ Mr. ;Krug was passing out the door (that is, on his last day as Secre- tary of Interior), he was induced to sign the orders. His previous Public statements and assurances | were cast overboard.” . FRENCH DOINGS PARIS, Feb. 3 — (P — Premier Georges Bidault said tonight the Socialist Party has withdrawn from his coalition cabinet. n | Warne told the committee Chap- | man had been unable to be pre- sent yesterday. Drop the Reserves Gruening read memoranda he had sent to former Secretaries Ickes and Krug, one six years ago, urging that plans for creating re- servations in the Territory be dropped by the Department. Gruening testified that he had asked Chapman to postpone the elections until a study could be made of the whole situation. “My understanding was the Sec- retary said he would do so,” Gruening said when Cordon asked what he understood the Secre- tary had said at the previous hear- ing. Chairman O'Mahoney read pre- { vious. testimony in which Chapman effort to create new uncermnm'i S'O(K ouo“A"oNs and unrest in Western Germany British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin met with French officials 1| Paris today to discuss some ot the potentially explosive East-West dil- ferences. King George VI in a proclamation dissolved \the British Parliament today which officially starts the British election campaign. Voting is on Feb. 23. SKI TOWS TO OPERATE The ski tow at Evergreen Bowl will be in operation tomorrow from 12:30 until 4:30 p.m., but the ski tow on the Douglas Island e will not be started until 10 a.m. Sunday, Juneau Ski Club officials | said today. NEW YORK, Feb. 3—Closing quo- | tation today of Alaska Juneau mine |stock s 8, American Can 116% |Anaconda 297, Cur Wright 8'¢ | International Harvester 27'2, Ken- necott 54'., New York Central 12%, Northern Pacific 15, U. S. Steel 30%, Pound $2.80'%. Sales today were 2,210,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: |Industrials 204.53, rails 55.51, utilit- ies 42.55. STEAMER MOVEMENTS | Baranof scheduled to Seattle tomorrow. Denali scheduled southbound on Monday afternoon. Princess Norah is scheduled to sail from Vancouver February 11. sail from 29 LEGISLATIVE | HOPEFULS LACE UP | GLOVES FOR BATILE The Democratic and Republican ‘parties in.the First Division today | were busy digging toeholds in the primary turf for the preliminary runoffs set for April 25. Leaders in each party werc scout- ing all 14 Democrat entrants and 11 Republicans filed for the House, in efforts to coordinate efforts to get out the votes and support the strongest—or who they feel are the ' strongest—entrants in the coming | race. On the Senate side, a promised scuffle is coming up among three men—all ¢f them old timers and wellknown, and all vote getters. Two sav 10 the House last session and what kind of a battle they'll wage is problematical right now Two will be picked in the primaries But as the Republicans have but one Senator, Elton Engstrom, Ju- neau fish broker, on the docket, he sure to be nominated. Dr. L. P Dawes would have been up this time, but decided against filing. Party leaders said there were no “slates” or groups of candidates run- ning together in the preliminaries. And of those who held seats last time, some dropped out altogether, and several House members tiled for the upper chamber. Only One Out Of the six Democrats who sat in the House last term, threc seek re- election. They are Marcus O. Jen- sen, Douglas storekeeper, Andrew Hope. Sitka boatbuilder, and Amelia | Gunderson of Ketchikan, wite of former Senator Andy Gunderson. Abel Anderson, Juneau dry cleaner, | S didn’t file. " (Continucd on Page Two) 28) in search of a missing C-54 with 44 perosns aboard. (Left to right' Lt. W. Boyd, parachute physician; Major. J. C. Smith, chief of rescue operations and Sgt. John Robbins, Boyd’s assistant. All are attached photo. We (an "Lick Hell” Outf of Russ: Johnson (By Associated Press) In Washington last night U.S. Secretary of Defense Johnson said the U.S. is ready to “lick hell” out of Russia at an hour's notice. It was the toughest language yet used in the cold war by a U.S. cabinet member. “Joe Stalin will know (hat it he starts something at four a.m., the fighting power of the United States will be on the job at five a.m.” The Defense minister said in a talk before the alumni of the University of Virginia. Johnson said the U.S. defense setup is more powerful than it has been since 1945. WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum 33; minimum 23. At Airport—Maximum 32; minimum, 18. FORECAST (Junesu and Vielnity) Partly cloudy and colder tonight and Saturday with gusty northeasterly winds. Lowest temperature tonight near 13 with highest Satur- day 16 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 & m. today City of Juneau—,07 inche: since Feb. 1—37 inches; since July 1--55.48 inches. At Airport—.13 inches. since Feb. 1--.16 inches; e since July 1—36.59 inches, "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ¢ . . . . . . . 26 PLANES IN SEARCH, WIDE AREA Flying Rofi;of Missing Transport fo Be Scan- ned in Gigantic Fan By RAY T. HARRISON WHITEHORSE, Y.T. Feb. 3—# —Twenty-six planes took off from the Joint U.S.-Canada Air Search center here today as skies cleared in the Northern Yukon and the hunt for a missing U.S. Skymaster carrying 44 passengers resumed with renewed vigor, Tempo of the search was stepped up today as orders weni out can- celling previous instructions per- mitting one hour's rest for every two hours of search. ‘The planes were dispatched today to sweep the area north of an East- West line through Northway, Alaska. Northway is 350 miles northwest of here on the air route followed by the missing plane. Weather in the southern sector of the search area around Snag, Yukon, continued bad today with overcast and snow reducing ' visi- bility to five miles. In “Radio Sweep” At Great Falls, Mont.. 10 B-29s took off early today on an all-out “radio sweep.” At Fort Nelson, B.C., the 10 ships were to fan out 20 miles apart to cover a 200-mile strip to Fairbanks. “If there are any radio signals being transmitted in the area, this sweep will pick them up,” a spokes- man for the Air Force said. The B:-20 crews- will- stay.over- night at Elmendorf Field, making a return sweep Saturday. Search Yesterday Only six planes got into the air here yesterday. Ten were expected to take otf today for the northern portion of the area where clear patches were expected to permit occasional visual contact with the ground. But Alr Commodore Martin Costello, search coordinator, ordered pilots to take no chances of cracking up them- selves and to return if conditions become too bad. At Great Falls, Mont., weather permitting, a score of B-29's plan- ned to make a mass sweep along the 2,100-mile route of the missing plane. Five planes searched un- availingly yesterday. Lose Signal Hopes Meanwhile, officers in charge of the joint U.S.-Canada search were losing hope that faint radio signals picked up on the distress band will be of help. Efforts to get a “fix” on their origin have been unsuccess- ful. Another report—that of a Beaver Lake, B.C,, settler that a large plane flew low over his cabin late last Thursday — was checked by tive planes out of Vancouver, B.C. They reported nothing but were to cover the area again today. Little con- nection was seen, however, between the report and the missing plane as Beaver Lake is some 200 miles we’ of the Alaska Highway ‘air route and is west instead of east of the Rockies. Report of Explosion Still unchecked was a report re=- ceived by the Canadian press from three men who reported hearing an explosion in the vicinity ot Caribou Mountain, near Carcross, Y.T., and some 50 miles southeast of Whitehorse. The men, each in a different lo- cation at the time, said the explo- sion was heard around the time the | U.S. C-54 was due over Whitehorse. HOUSE OF DAVID CAGERS WINNING WHEREVER PLAY KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 3— (Special to The Empire)--Four Ket- chikan teams, each playing one quarter, lost to the House of David team by a score of 66 to 50. Ket- chikan teams playing were Elks, Eagles, Harolds, and Thomas Con- struction, The Davids defeated Metlakatla Vets by 68 to 30. The team is still grounded here due to weather,